Chapter 74 You Know Too Much

Things like digging out a lich's life box must be done by professionals.

When it comes to dealing with the undead, the Alchemy City is simply no match for the Ryan Empire.

The paladins walked around the castle several times and soon found something wrong with an altar. The corpses placed on it looked like they had not been moved for a long time.

The leading paladin gave an order and opened the base of the altar. As expected, they found an exquisitely shaped life box. The strong smell of the dead made it look like the real thing.

But the leading paladin sneered and said, "Keep digging."

The newcomers didn't understand what was going on, but they continued as ordered. Soon they dug out another identical life box from under the pedestal.

The leading paladin said smugly, "Humph, an old-fashioned trick. These undeads really don't have much creativity."

Just as we were about to call for the team to be called back, a new Paladin suddenly said, "Captain, wait a minute, the soil below looks like it's been dug up as well."

The leading paladin: "Hmm? Dig more!"

Sure enough, another life box was soon dug out.

The leading paladin sighed, "This lich is quite something. He knows how to use the anti-logic twice. It's no wonder that so many of our companions were tricked by him. However, no matter how powerful he is..."

"Captain, it seems, there is still..."

There was an awkward silence among the paladins, and then they continued digging without being told. This time, they found something even more outrageous, a life box on each side of the same location.

Looking at the five life boxes shining brightly in front of him, the leading paladin felt his scalp tingling.

He only said in a trembling voice: "The phylactery requires a large amount of souls as raw materials. Even if it is a fake, souls must be mixed in... How many people did this lich kill?"

Generally speaking, the minimum requirement for a Lich's Life Box is one thousand human souls, with no upper limit.

These souls are the key to protecting the lich's core and the source of the lich's power.

Although slaves on the mainland are cheap, but five thousand of them... What kind of crazy undead are these?! At this time, a paladin with a trembling voice said: "Captain, do you think these five phylacteries are all fake?"

The team leader was sweating profusely and his voice became hoarse.

"Quick, evil detection, check the entire castle. Don't be stingy with your magic, you must check every place thoroughly."

The holy knights began to search everywhere with an uneasy mood. The search was fruitful. Soon someone found a phylactery on the ceiling of the castle, followed by bookshelves, bottoms of flower pots, preservative liquid tanks, behind paintings, in coffins... A terrifying number of phylacteries were found one by one, a total of eighty-eight.

Eighty-eight life boxes, and if each life box contains a thousand lives, this lich has killed nearly a hundred thousand people!

Such a huge number stimulated many young people to recite scriptures frantically, trying to suppress their fear and anger. The leading paladin leaned against the wall with cold hands and feet, because he had just found a new life box from the corner of the wall.

Crazy, really crazy, how many phylacteries did this lich make, and how many have not been dug out? When James Watson saw these piles of phylacteries, this devout believer of the Lord of the Dawn couldn't help but curse.

"They actually tolerated a lich who massacred 100,000 people to survive here. The corruption and darkness of the Alchemy City are more serious than I imagined!"

The Ryan Empire has not killed so many people in its recent wars. This lich is so sinful that he deserves to be struck to death by the thunder of divine punishment.

However, James Watson was the highest judge of the empire after all, and he had witnessed many cruel cases, so he quickly calmed down.

The number of these phylacteries was not right. James Watson vaguely remembered that the lich had not been reincarnated for a long time. If he had massacred 100,000 people in a short period of time, the population of this area would have been broken and turned into a dead land. The Alchemy City could not watch him massacre 100,000 people. Do they still want to rule? Feeling something was wrong, James Watson picked up a phylactery. A holy light shone in his palm, conflicting with the dark magic on the phylactery. With a slight sound, the phylactery was suddenly covered with cracks, and then it was easily opened by James Watson.

Sure enough, it was empty.

"The material is indeed souls, and the strength is not low. I'm afraid there are more than a thousand souls. No, is there a space magic structure inside?"

James Watson looked at the broken magic circle structure inside the life box and could only see some clues of space magic, but he himself was not good at this kind of magic and could only get a general idea.

Even though he could tell it was space magic, James Watson couldn't figure out what it meant.

What's the point of making a magic circle to expand the capacity of an empty phylactery? It's too much money?

Although he couldn't understand it no matter how hard he thought about it, James Watson would not give up. He continued to order the holy knights to search the place carefully, even if they had to dig three feet into the ground to find all the life boxes.

At this moment, the airship has entered the Alchemy City.

As Amber entered this magnificent city of knowledge, the magic patterns on the city walls that had remained the same for many years began to light up. At the same time, the Queen of the Dead, who came for a visit, was respectfully asked to leave the city, and all the puppets in the city were mobilized to patrol every corner of the city.

Amber Xiu could not see such a grand scene, because as soon as he entered the city, he was sent to the Parliament Tower, and a pile of information was placed in front of him.

Gustavo Flin told him that this was the operating procedure of the wishing machine, and asked him to study it carefully and familiarize himself with it. After he had finished reading it, he could start making wishes.

Although Amber knew that this was a trap, he also knew that there was real stuff in this pile of information.

As a scholar who could leave his name in the City of Alchemy, they didn't dare to fool him with just any fake goods. The real and fake goods must be mixed to make it look like the real thing.

Gustavo Flynn probably didn't expect that Amber had already seen the general structure of the sewer and guessed the truth about the wishing machine, so there must be information that can be dug out from these materials that can bring Amber closer to the truth.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

How did this prayer ritual work? Where was the weak point? What part went wrong that led to the destruction of the Alchemy City? Amberxiu couldn't wait to find out how his head fell off.

As soon as Amberxiu opened the information, he smiled. As expected, he was right. This group of alchemists had stuffed some contents of the prayer ritual into the information. Although they covered it up with a lot of false and misleading information, they still failed to deceive Amberxiu since he had already known the result in advance.

While Amber was doing his research seriously, Gustavo Flynn was getting a little anxious waiting.

It was agreed that the phylactery would be found in two hours at most, but it has already been nearly four hours. These paladins are acting too recklessly. Although the phylactery is not the key to the whole plan and can be left alone when necessary, Gustavo Flynn is unsure without a trump card that can control Amberhau.

In the end, Gustavo Flynn did not wait for the life box to be delivered, because Amber was the first to walk out of the library with the information.

Amber smiled and said to Gustavo Flynn: "I have memorized it. Now, can I make a wish?"

Gustavo Flynn frowned and said, "So fast? Are you sure you remember everything? There can't be any mistakes in this process."

"Don't worry. I understand the importance of precision to alchemy. I won't joke with my own life. Oh, I just remembered that I'm a lich. I won't die if my phylactery is intact."

Amber's last words were like stepping on Gustavo Flynn's toes and crushing them a few times, almost making him jump. However, the old actor still kept his composure and said to Amber, "Well, since you can't wait, I will take you to see the greatest masterpiece of Alchemy City."

Gustavo Flynn brought Amber to a huge teleportation magic circle, which looked like a continental teleportation circle, with the longest distance able to span tens of thousands of kilometers.

But Amberxiu knew very well that this was a trick, and the teleportation array would send him directly into the sewer.

Therefore, at the moment when the teleportation array was about to be activated, Amberxiu performed the Phantom Step and jumped out of the teleportation array at the last moment.

Gustavo Flynn disappeared into the teleportation array with a look of astonishment on his face, and he himself was sent into the sewer.

The alchemists in charge of the teleportation array didn't react either. How did this lich suddenly appear?

Before they could make any move, Amber Xiu said, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I just felt a little urgent and needed to go to the bathroom."

Several alchemists outside the magic circle were confused, and one asked stupidly, "Don't undead have that ability?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge fireball burst out from Amber's fingers, blowing the alchemist's body into pieces. The raging flames also blew the huge teleportation array into pieces, completely cutting off the possibility of Gustavo Flynn returning.

Amberxiu then blew on the small flame on his fingertips and said to the dead alchemist: "You know too much."

Fourth update! Another two thousand seven 　　 　 (end of this chapter)